Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) · Kentucky

Dirt Works Unlimited

Brandenburg, KY · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dirt Works Unlimited runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) workplace, earning a grade A.

Dirt Works Unlimited: 1.1 TCR = 40% of Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dirt Works Unlimited safety composite

Dirt Works Unlimited scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Dirt Works Unlimited: 0.0 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2024

Dirt Works Unlimited's TCR rose 3.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 3.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Brandenburg, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #5/23
  • PHOTO Russo Development En…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Russo Development Enterprises, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dirt Works Unlimited in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Dirt Works Unlimited averages 1.1 TCR (40% of the Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Dirt Works Unlimited TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Dirt Works Unlimited falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving or lan establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 23 Excavating, earthmoving or lan employers in Kentucky.

Dirt Works Unlimited (48 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Dirt Works Unlimited
Dirt Works Unlimited (48 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Dirt Works Unlimited has fewer employees than the Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · KY · Brandenburg

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 17 employers in Brandenburg, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Russo Development Enterprises, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Underpinning Foundation Skanska 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LP's Excavating, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-Jay Excavating, Inc. 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peterson Farms 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cane Run Station 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bri-Den Roofing 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cunningham Door & Window 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel Brandenburg 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monument Chemical, Brandenburg KY 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR 024-00903 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elizabethtown Location 127 FTE
NAT-TCR Birdsong Corporation-Franklin/Southampton 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Star Lumber West Street 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Turkey Feed Mill 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt (Jet Corr.) Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deltec Homes, Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harwood 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE M3, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alfalfa Electric Cooperative, Inc. 48 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.